LUTHER 1527 The Arian Controversy down to the Council of Nicaea, 318-325.
LUTHER 1527
If we establish that Oecolampadius can neither prove this assertion of his nor indicate how the Scriptures are contradictory in the sight of God—which, to be sure, he can never do—then the whole argument has been won and we. have established everything. For if it turns out that we retain the words, “This is my body,” i.e. that Christ’s body is present in the Supper, then the saying in John 6[:63], “The flesh is of no avail,” will harmonize perfectly well. Miracles aplenty will then take place, the sacraments will not be mere symbols, and their whole swarm which is so big will scatter and fly away like dust before the wind. For it will not be necessary to relegate Christ’s body and blood to the status of a useless or insignificant thing. Of this I am sure.
The Arian Controversy down to the Council of Nicaea, 318-325.
The church always believed in this Trinity of revelation, and confessed its faith by baptism into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. This carried with it from the first the conviction, that this revelation of God must be grounded in a distinction immanent in the divine essence. But to bring this faith into clear and fixed knowledge, and to form the baptismal confession into doctrine, was the hard and earnest intellectual work of three centuries. In the Nicene age minds crashed against each other, and fought the decisive battles for and against the doctrines of the true deity of Christ, with which the divinity of Christianity stands or falls.
HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Schaff Volume 3 NICENE AND POST-NICENE CHRISTIANTY A.D. 311-600
(Page 618)
If we establish that Oecolampadius can neither prove this assertion of his nor indicate how the Scriptures are contradictory in the sight of God—which, to be sure, he can never do—then the whole argument has been won and we. have established everything. For if it turns out that we retain the words, “This is my body,” i.e. that Christ’s body is present in the Supper, then the saying in John 6[:63], “The flesh is of no avail,” will harmonize perfectly well. Miracles aplenty will then take place, the sacraments will not be mere symbols, and their whole swarm which is so big will scatter and fly away like dust before the wind. For it will not be necessary to relegate Christ’s body and blood to the status of a useless or insignificant thing. Of this I am sure.
The Arian Controversy down to the Council of Nicaea, 318-325.
The church always believed in this Trinity of revelation, and confessed its faith by baptism into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. This carried with it from the first the conviction, that this revelation of God must be grounded in a distinction immanent in the divine essence. But to bring this faith into clear and fixed knowledge, and to form the baptismal confession into doctrine, was the hard and earnest intellectual work of three centuries. In the Nicene age minds crashed against each other, and fought the decisive battles for and against the doctrines of the true deity of Christ, with which the divinity of Christianity stands or falls.
HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Schaff Volume 3 NICENE AND POST-NICENE CHRISTIANTY A.D. 311-600
(Page 618)
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